The House on Thursday initially approved a measure to protect children from exploitation over the Internet, without an expected amendment to require service providers to keep customers’ access records.

Instead, the measure would require the companies to send more information on suspected illegal activity to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Gumbleton met with each lawmaker one-on- one in Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald’s office to avoid the state’s public-meetings laws.

Fitz-Gerald said the meetings “allowed people to look into the eyes of a Catholic bishop who was a victim himself, and they could see that he was sincere and that he understood the ramifications of the legislation.”

Fitz-Gerald is sponsoring Senate Bill 143, which would open a window in the statutes of limitations to let long-ago cases of sexual abuse of a child be pursued in court.

Senate rejects donations bill

The Colorado Senate on Thursday rejected the House version of a bill that aims to limit contributions to elected officials.

Senate Bill 51 originally limited donations to “office accounts,” but the House version also eliminated fees that lawmakers could take for giving speeches.

Sen. Ron Tupa, D-Boulder, persuaded his fellow senators to reject the House version of the bill because it might lead to a veto by the governor, who reported earning $35,000 for four speaking engagements last year.

The bill now goes to a conference committee.

Senate floor getting too wild

For the second time this week, a state senator attempted to bring a wild animal onto the floor of the chamber.

On Tuesday, Sen. Lew Entz, R-Hooper, hoisted a small alligator at the podium. On Thursday, Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald, D-Jefferson County, refused to allow Sen. Lois Tochtrop, D-Thornton, to bring a hawk onto the floor.

“We are not allowing animals on the Senate floor, whether they are Democratic animals, have feathers or fur, in an effort to maintain some decorum,” Fitz-Gerald said at the beginning of the morning’s proceedings.

Sen. Dave Owen, R-Greeley, asked if the ban applied to him.

Fitz-Gerald said that because Owen was “duly elected, we have to allow you on the Senate floor.”

Conservation Colorado, a political nonprofit that advocates for environmental policies, spent more than $4.6 million -- a record for the group — to help Democrats take the levers of state government this month.

Denver police have increasingly focused curfew enforcement in Latino neighborhoods in recent years — with a special emphasis on Cinco de Mayo and other holidays — while other areas have seen much less enforcement.